Quote by James Lovelock
If it hadnt been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America woul

If it hadnt been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. – James Lovelock

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One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You dont know it. – James Lovelock

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Hope
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I dont think were yet evolved to the point where were clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you cant really do anything meaningful. – James Lovelock

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Change
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Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. – James Lovelock

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War
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Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War – both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. Theres a pulse to it. – Diane Kruger

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War

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. – Barack Obama

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War

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries arent civil war, they are democracy at work, and thats beautiful. – Sarah Palin

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War

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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War

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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? – Carl Sagan

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